Jakarta cuts aircraft movement rate, cites safety issues

Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport will cut aircraft throughput from a current peak of 72 movements per hour to around 60 per hour because of a shortage of air traffic control (ATC) staff.
Indonesia Transportation Ministry director aircraft operations Muzaffar Ismail said that “a high frequency of flights [brings] a greater risk of collisions and accidents” at the capital’s main airport.
Soekarno-Hatta was rated the world’s eighth busiest in 2014, ...